Head Start and Early Head Start

Description

Head Start is a national program which provides comprehensive developmental services for low-income, preschool children ages from three to five and social services for their families. The services for children focus on education, socio-emotional development, physical and mental health, and nutrition.

Welfare Reform Act of 1996 Impact on Head Start program:

• Head Start program grantees are working in partnership with state and local agencies in understanding changes to support low-income families in their effort toward economic self-sufficiency.

Early Head Start is a national program which provides early, continuous, intensive, and comprehensive child development and family support services on a year-round basis to low-income families with children under age three and pregnant women. Early Head Start is a new program established by the Congress with reauthorization of the Head Start Act in 1994.

More Information

Division of Payment Management
GrantsNet
Welfare Reform Act of 1996
Early Head Start National Resource Center
Search for a Head Start Grantee

American Samoa Government (684) 633-5177
Arizona Governor's Division for Children Collaboration (602) 542-3483
California Head Start State Collaboration Office
Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (670) 664-3751
Guam Public School System (671) 475-0484
Hawaii Head Start Collboration Office
Marshall Islands Ministry of Education (692) 625-4622
Nevada State Collaboration Grant (775) 688-2284
Palau Community Action Agency (680) 488-5875
Pohnpei Family Head Start Program, Inc (691) 320-2705
Truk (Chuuk) Organization for Community Action, Inc (691) 330-2188
Yap Department of Education (691) 350-2155

Head Start Bureau National Contractor Websites

HS Information & Publications Center
HS National Resource Center
Program Information Report Web site
GABI website
HS Fiscal Assistant Website
HS Facilities Web site
HS Early Learning and Literacy Website